mystery and detective stories

After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry.

Junior sleuth Jeffrey Bones and his grandfather enjoy a day at the amusement park until their tickets to ride the giant roller coaster mysteriously disappear.

Eight-year-old Nancy Drew is thrilled to be invited to Deirdre's City Girls-themed sleepover party, but her investigative skills are needed when Deirdre's Hollywood Heather doll goes missing.

Martha the dog recounts her early days as a canine criminal after having been adopted by a thief and her partner before being captured by the police and brought to a shelter, where she ultimately met Helen.

Eric wants to find out about the old man who has moved in next door, so he and the other Cul-de-sac Kids decide to pay him a Christmas visit.

Leon and his friend Susan discover something suspicious going on in their tiny little village of New Auckland, and soon find themselves involved in an archeological mystery.

Sent to Camp Happy Harmony to learn how to get along with each other, pairs of brothers and sisters chronicle in letters home how they come to suspect the intentions of the singing family running the camp.

Twins Jen and Zeke investigate when a circus arrives in their town of Mystic, Maine, and its tiger is stolen. Includes clues for readers who want to try to solve the mystery.

When her grandmother decides to ditch assisted living and start a boarding house, fourteen-year-old Amanda Jane Keeling, or Rebel, signs on for the work crew, where she just happens to meet a teenaged boy taller than she is and to embroil them both in a mystery.

When strange accidents start occurring at the local pioneer village, Nancy, Bess, and George go undercover to determine if the village is really haunted by the Lantern Lady, or if the accidents have a more deadly cause.